This essay is a reflection on the book The crisis of narration by Byung-Chul Han, read during the summer of 2025. All the quotes are from the book. Because we lack sufficiently strong communal narratives, our late modern societies are unstable. Without a shared narrative, the political, which makes shared action possible, cannot properly form. Introduction Intelligence computes and counts. Spirit, however, recounts. I can’t recall how I found out about this book. I remember — ironical...
